Quotes About Altar

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

The Spirit is speaking strongly to me for you to place a $50 offering on the altar, when you do, God will do a now miracle.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.

If your altar is not active, your voice will not be strong

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread, As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

He sensed that it was all here, everything, and there was none of it there. All of life's compelling throbs, condensed and honed each time a bullet flew: the pain, the brother-love, the sacrifice. Nobility discovered by those who'd never even contemplated sacrifice, never felt an emotion worth their own blood on someone else's altar.

There is nothing original I can offer this child. I am obligated to make an offering, however, a virgin to the gods, a stuffed animal to a new baby. If I lay this gift on the altar, will you promise me I'll never get pregnant? I

Seizing a cudgel from the nearest priest, he laid about him like a veritable demon as he forged his rapid way toward the altar. The hand of La had paused at the first noise of interruption. When she saw who the author of it was she went white. She had never been able to fathom the secret of the strange white man's escape from the dungeon in which she had locked him.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

I grew up going to Catholic school and I was altar boy even going back to the days where the altar boys had to learn the Latin clergy for mass.

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

I imagine he's at the altar," she replied matter-of-factly. "Where I left him." Jaynes' eyes bugged and a little choking sound emerged from

He is giving us his full Jesus-Christ self—that wonderful symbiosis of divinity and humanity. But the vehicle, the medium, and the final message here are physical, edible, chewable—yes, digestible human flesh. Much of ancient religion portrayed God eating or sacrificing humans or animals, which were offered on the altars, but Jesus turned religion and history on their heads, inviting us to imagine that God would give himself as food for us!

One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo.

Alison was relieved: she would have hated to see Mary lose her dignity as well as her life. "Follow me," said the sheriff. Mary turned back momentarily and took an ivory crucifix from its hook on the wall over the altar. With the cross pressed to her heavy bosom and the prayer book in her other hand she walked behind the sheriff, and Alison followed.